of state spokesman nicholas burns rejected the nazi comparisons in the open letter as " outrageous " and distance ##d the u . s . government from nazi comparisons made by the church of scientology , saying , " we have criticized the germans on this , but we aren ' t going to support the sci ##ent ##ologists ' terror tactics against the german government . " chancellor ko ##hl , commenting on the letter , said that those who signed it " don ' t know a thing about germany and don ' t want to know . " german officials argued that " the whole fuss was crank ##ed up by the sci ##ent ##ologists to achieve what we won ' t give them :
of state spokesman nicholas burns rejected the nazi comparisons in the open letter as " outrageous " and distanced the u. s. government from nazi comparisons made by the church of scientology, saying, " we have criticized the germans on this, but we aren't going to support the scientologists'terror tactics against the german government. " chancellor kohl, commenting on the letter, said that those who signed it " don't know a thing about germany and don't want to know. " german officials argued that " the whole fuss was cranked up by the scientologists to achieve what we won't give them :